Queen of Monsters

The Queen of Monsters is an ancient ruler who calls her monstrous servants Children while treating even a chosen Champion as expendable. She names Drakath her son and empowers him, but also says his destruction is necessary for her return and abandons him. His human mother, Ophelia, was made a vessel for a fragment of the Queen. Her language of kinship therefore coexists with the use of others to secure her own power.

Anka’s account places betrayal and rage at the beginning of her rule. Once human, she was left for dead by her husband and opened the Plane of Monsters in grief and fury, returning with an army to kill him. Her first reign set peoples against one another and punished resistance until heroes sealed her away with the Elemental Orbs.

The power of that rage survives her death. Anka says the Queen’s Heart still contains her pain and anger and feels it bending her will. Malgor later consumes the Heart for its power.

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Sources

AQW Wiki: Queen Of Monsters Monster 2 · AQW Wiki story reference · Anka’s account of the Queen · The Queen and Drakath (game scene transcript) · Felix on Ophelia’s role · Malgor and the Queen’s Heart · Iadoa on the Queen’s first reign